Lincoln School and Union Church, South Bristol, ca. 1915
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South Bristol Historical Society
Perhaps more pressing than lack of funding for maintenance, supplies, and teacher salaries in the lower grades was the fact that the four-year Bristol High School was too far away for most South Bristol area students to attend.
Only those few who could board with friends or family near the school could attend.
Some traveled by boat to Damariscotta to attend Lincoln Academy, but the annual cost of $100 was beyond the reach of most.
A two-year high school in South Bristol was grudgingly approved – and inadequately financed - by Bristol around 1912, but the long-standing inequality of scholastic opportunity placed South Bristol area students at a great disadvantage.
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